Though business cards may well go extinct one day, most of us still have of a handful in our wallet or lying in our desk drawer. If you want to liven up your next networking event, it's surprisingly easy to turn a stack of your business cards into a tear 'em off-style pad.

Business cards have long been the way we've shared our professional contact information with…
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Instructables user PropPrintables guides us through the brief process. Essentially, all you're doing is using pencils and rubber bands to firmly clamp a stack of roughly 50 cards, then applying a coat of glue to one end. After a night of drying, the stack should hold together, while still allowing you to remove individual cards without damage.

While this trick may not seem terribly useful, the act of giving someone a business card is essentially an attempt to make an impression. Tearing one off of a notepad-style stack, if nothing else, may just make you stand out among a sea of people at a networking event or job fair.